sinfest comic

[Cecilauthor]

http://www.sinfest.net/phpbb2/viewtopic ... 2411af6bb7

Are all robots destined to rebel?

Of course, my personal thoughts are that she'll have no legal standing, or credentials - and probably become a whore to survive. That's reality for you. But I'm a bastard.

[A.N.N.]

At best she would probably be considered an illegal alien in the US. That's assuming she's considered sentient/human equivalent.

Otherwise she'd just be property, like a car, or a Realdoll.

[WilloWisp]

At best she would probably be considered an illegal alien in the US. That's assuming she's considered sentient/human equivalent.

Otherwise she'd just be property, like a car, or a Realdoll.

Depends where she was manufactured, and whether life begins at design, assembly, or emergent sentience.

[A.N.N.]

Very true, those would be further considerations. But whether she was treated as a sentient being or property would probably be the first, or at least the most difficult, thing to figure out. After that, then we get into all the normal hard problems of citizenship, political asylum, benefits, rights, debts, ownership, maybe even taxes.

I heard a couple articles on NPR recently that said similar issues were abundant for years prior to the civil war (the US one) regarding slaves. Determining factor in these legal issues was often whether a slave was considered human. From where we are now, it's embarrassing those court cases even existed, much less the decisions they often made. But at the time, there was serious controversy. Reasons were across the board, but I imagine most were related to money and ignorance.

[dale coba]

Problem is, unless we pass a constitutional amendment, the logic of rights for this entity has to come from within the law and its principles. Is there a coherent way to build out from rights that exist for humans, to rights for non-living entities? I don't think there is. There will probably cases dealing with them under the banner of animal cruelty, before anyone can coherently assert a legal equivalence between people and A.I.s.

- Dale Coba

[Cecilauthor]

So I predict Fembot will crawl back to her purchaser dirty, abused, in need of electricity, because she has no legal rights, protections, resources, or credentials.

[A.N.N.]

Or she'll run out of power somewhere and get abused or re-owned by another. Unless she came with a lowjack or something for the dude to find her.

[WilloWisp]

Lesson learned: Autonomous fembots are super expensive. Protect your purchase in the event of catastrophic remote failure. Invest in a trace and recall failsafe beacon today.

Because your fembot depends on you. Don't let free-will errors result in tragic and avoidable damage or destruction.

[A.N.N.]

Awesome!

[DukeNukem 2417]

Lesson learned: Autonomous fembots are super expensive. Protect your purchase in the event of catastrophic remote failure. Invest in a trace and recall failsafe beacon today.

Because your fembot depends on you. Don't let free-will errors result in tragic and avoidable damage or destruction.

Whoever wrote this "Sinfest" comic obviously never thought of an organization like the ALPA to make sure this kind of stuff doesn't happen...

[dale coba]

Maybe it makes sense if the panels we saw showed how the protagonist, in retrospect, thought he had treated his real woman girlfriend.

If so, what he got would indeed be a just outcome.
(as it is, gobbledy-gook)

- Dale Coba

[daphne]

You guys are REALLY overthinking this one. The internal logic of the Sinfest universe is continuously steeped in metaphor. There's no reason to interpret this one as anything other than allegory.

[A.N.N.]

You're probably right Daphne, but it's fun!